One can't be angry when one looks at a penguin.

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.

Life without industry is guilt, and industry without art is brutality.

That admiration of the 'neat but not gaudy,' which is commonly reported to have influenced the devil when he painted his tail pea green.

Give me some mud off a city crossing, some ochre out of a gravel pit and a little whitening and some coal dust and I will paint you a luminous picture if you give me time to gradate my mud and subdue my dust.

All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.

Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity.